Originally Posted by
Racine1026
Surprisingly competitive I mean its a Chinese A/C unlike the ARJ21 project. The aircraft has orders from outside suppliers in Africa.
I think you'll find the Chinese are offering aircraft for free as part of their aid packages to some African countries in exchange for mining rights, trade deals, etc. That's a bit different to an airline (in Africa or elsewhere) making an objective evaluation of MA700 versus ATR versus Q400 and choosing MA700. I know that MA600s (which is a type that has actually flown) have been offered to Cameroon, for example, but given the fact that the MA700 was proposed six years ago and is still a paper project, I'm not sure how many mining concessions or new bridges or harvests it's actually worth...
Rather than being a game changer, I think "yesterday's technology tomorrow" would be a more accurate tagline.